I do the same thing. I use an SSH tunnel through my server in Michigan (I live in Texas) and the streaming on youtube is fine. I had a sneaky suspicion they were throttling the videos.
If I had a choice, I'd leave...but I don't.
Since my server in Michigan has, essentially, unlimited bandwidth ( > 12 Gbit / month), I may as well do an SSH proxy all the time...
The basic outline of the broadcast flag was approved in principle by a large and diverse group of consumer electronics, computer technology and video content companies. This consensus was reached after a thorough process involving all affected parties.
All parties except consumers. The engineering group at my company acts somewhat in the same way:
Them: "Look at this cool stuff. You need to use it"
Us: "We can't, it reduces the functionality of our stuff that we have now"
Them: "But you need this new stuff"
Us: "If we use it, we will do less with what we have now"
Them: "Pffft...stupid end users"
It seems that there are always people that 'know better' and want to pat the consumers on the head and say, "That's nice, now run along and play with your friends while we give you what we want"
They have. Trouble is, there is no one else to vote for. That's why voter turnout is so low.
Voter turnout is the highest it has been since 1968 (60.7%). When I cast my ballot, there were 8 choices for president of the U.S.; three of which I honestly didn't know anything about.
I cannot say that there is no one else to vote for, it's just that not many people are so unhappy, so fed-up, that they desire the change that a 'third party' candidate would attempt to bring to the governance of the country (self not included).
We in the U.S. live in a country full of sheep. And those of us not of sheep ilk must deal with it...
Microsoft may not have wanted to win this lawsuit. By redesigning their browser and, in effect, making everybody that wants their site to work with IE redesign their site, they would, at a cost of $500million US gain control over the web.
I know this may be a simplistic view, and there is probably much more that can be read into this thing, but remember what Microsoft has said:
It has a soothing, droning quality. In my home (office) I have a PC that sounds like a harrier (sp) in the midst of full-throttle vertical take-off.
It has a desperate need for cooling with two athlons, four hard drives and two cd/dvd media drives (in a mid-size tower) -- I need all the fans I can get...
Anyway, I like the noise...It gives me a sense of controlling some level of power, power that requires this level of noise to tame...
I suppose that Andrew Wiles, having a wife and kids, is an exception.
You know, the same Andrew Wiles that proved Fermat's last theorem (a^n + b^n != c^n, n > 2, n is an integer) using some mathematics so advanced maybe 10 people in the world understand it (do NOT check that number).
I guess you have to admire his wife for saying (paraphrasing), "Get in your office...I don't want to see you until you've solved this".
Cheers to the genius and the support of his spouse!!
"If you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to fear?"
I suppose that if you've done nothing wrong in your house, you don't mind if the law enforcement groups come in and take a look. If you've done nothing wrong, you don't need a lawyer. If you've done nothing wrong, you won't be arrested.
The list can go on.
I think there needs to be caution before these types of statements are made. DNA profiling (as mentioned somewhere else in this replyset) is not far away...unless it is not allowed to happen by those of us the government is supposed to represent.
DNA is good, but privacy is paramount.
You can have my DNA when you pry it from my cold, dead cells.
So...Two different comanies with different standards want us to pony up:
$400 for a new satellite receiver
$100 (please verify) for a new satellite antenna (which doesn't come with the receiver)
$10 per month to listen to something you may listen to for 8 hours a day
It doesn't sound like a deal to me...maybe we could make some mp3 discs (shuffled by a program...pre-burn, of course), buy a radio that plays mp3 CDs ($179) and listen to that...
Or better yet, if you know you're going on a trip, search the internet (since we are 'technolgists') and find out what radio stations are along the way...
Seems to me like satellite radio may be an answer to a question nobody asked...
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I do the same thing. I use an SSH tunnel through my server in Michigan (I live in Texas) and the streaming on youtube is fine. I had a sneaky suspicion they were throttling the videos. If I had a choice, I'd leave...but I don't. Since my server in Michigan has, essentially, unlimited bandwidth ( > 12 Gbit / month), I may as well do an SSH proxy all the time...
The basic outline of the broadcast flag was approved in principle by a large and diverse group of consumer electronics, computer technology and video content companies. This consensus was reached after a thorough process involving all affected parties.
All parties except consumers. The engineering group at my company acts somewhat in the same way:
Them: "Look at this cool stuff. You need to use it"
Us: "We can't, it reduces the functionality of our stuff that we have now"
Them: "But you need this new stuff"
Us: "If we use it, we will do less with what we have now"
Them: "Pffft...stupid end users"
It seems that there are always people that 'know better' and want to pat the consumers on the head and say, "That's nice, now run along and play with your friends while we give you what we want"
To this I say Pffft...
I cannot say that there is no one else to vote for, it's just that not many people are so unhappy, so fed-up, that they desire the change that a 'third party' candidate would attempt to bring to the governance of the country (self not included).
We in the U.S. live in a country full of sheep. And those of us not of sheep ilk must deal with it...
Someone mentioned this in passing earlier...
Microsoft may not have wanted to win this lawsuit. By redesigning their browser and, in effect, making everybody that wants their site to work with IE redesign their site, they would, at a cost of $500million US gain control over the web.
I know this may be a simplistic view, and there is probably much more that can be read into this thing, but remember what Microsoft has said:
One World, One Web, One Program
Maybe this is the first part of their strategery.
Oh...and there is NO paranoia here.
It has a soothing, droning quality. In my home (office) I have a PC that sounds like a harrier (sp) in the midst of full-throttle vertical take-off.
It has a desperate need for cooling with two athlons, four hard drives and two cd/dvd media drives (in a mid-size tower) -- I need all the fans I can get...
Anyway, I like the noise...It gives me a sense of controlling some level of power, power that requires this level of noise to tame...
Shouldn't somebody patent this process before Bezos does??
I suppose that Andrew Wiles, having a wife and kids, is an exception.
You know, the same Andrew Wiles that proved Fermat's last theorem (a^n + b^n != c^n, n > 2, n is an integer) using some mathematics so advanced maybe 10 people in the world understand it (do NOT check that number).
I guess you have to admire his wife for saying (paraphrasing), "Get in your office...I don't want to see you until you've solved this".
Cheers to the genius and the support of his spouse!!
"If you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to fear?"
I suppose that if you've done nothing wrong in your house, you don't mind if the law enforcement groups come in and take a look. If you've done nothing wrong, you don't need a lawyer. If you've done nothing wrong, you won't be arrested.
The list can go on. I think there needs to be caution before these types of statements are made. DNA profiling (as mentioned somewhere else in this replyset) is not far away...unless it is not allowed to happen by those of us the government is supposed to represent.
DNA is good, but privacy is paramount.
You can have my DNA when you pry it from my cold, dead cells.
I figure it would take me about, oh, 24 hours to download a movie...
$400 for a new satellite receiver
$100 (please verify) for a new satellite antenna (which doesn't come with the receiver)
$10 per month to listen to something you may listen to for 8 hours a day
It doesn't sound like a deal to me...maybe we could make some mp3 discs (shuffled by a program...pre-burn, of course), buy a radio that plays mp3 CDs ($179) and listen to that...
Or better yet, if you know you're going on a trip, search the internet (since we are 'technolgists') and find out what radio stations are along the way...
Seems to me like satellite radio may be an answer to a question nobody asked...